04Notebook
Kontur Cover, A5
CHF 95.00Vegetable-tanned · Chestnut
In stock · fits item 01 exactlyOpen 04
Item 01 · Notebook · Catalogue 2026
Raster 120Notebook, A5
Above01 — the block, opened flat at any spreadLeft02 — the sewn spine, three linen tapes
CHF 42.00incl. 8.1% MWST
In stock · 38 on the shelf · ships Thursday01Add to the order
Back to all twelve
- Delivery
- CHF 7.00 · 1–2 days · free over CHF 80.00
- Returns
- 30 days, unused and in its box
- Repair
- Rebinding at cost, no time limit
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Specification
- Format
- A5 — 148 × 210 × 16 mm
- Closed, with the band removed
- Extent
- 192 pages · 96 leaves · 12 signatures
- Sewn, not glued
- Paper
- 120 gsm · 0.14 mm · acid free
- Mill at Biberist, 110 km away
- Grid
- 5 mm square · 12% grey · 8 mm margin
- Also ruled at 6 mm, or plain
- Board
- 2.5 mm greyboard, cloth-wrapped
- Slate, bone or signal red
- Opening
- Lies flat at any spread
- Hollow back, rounded spine
- Weight
- 410 g
- Shipped weight 520 g
- Numbering
- Batch and sheet number on page 192
- Quote it for a rebind
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What is in the box
Four things, in a flat board box 155 × 218 × 24 mm. No tissue, no plastic, no printed note of thanks.
- 01The notebookIn the ruling and board colour you chose
- 02Numbered paper bandBatch number, sheet number, binder's initials
- 03Specification cardA6, the table above, printed letterpress
- 04Two spare index tabsGummed, 5 mm, cut from the same board
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Four days, four benches
A batch of 300 moves through the room in this order. Step one is running today.
01Print
The grid is laid down on flat sheets at 12% grey, 32 pages to the forme, and left overnight to dry.
Running now02
Fold and gather
Sheets are folded to 16-page signatures, knocked up square and gathered in order of sheet number.
Thursday03
Sew
Twelve signatures on three linen tapes, sewn on the frame by hand, then glued at the spine only.
Friday04
Case in
Cloth is wrapped over 2.5 mm board, the block is cased in, pressed for 12 hours and numbered.
Monday05 — About this item
Five questions we get about item 01
Will it lie flat on the first page?
Yes. The hollow back and the sewn block mean page 1 opens as flat as page 96. It needs no breaking in and no weight on the corner.
How much does it hold, in weeks?
192 pages is about eleven months at one page a working day, or five months at two. Customers who draw rather than write tend to finish one in four.
Does a fountain pen bleed through 120 gsm?
Not with a fine or medium nib. A broad italic with a very wet ink leaves a visible ghost on the reverse but does not go through. Item 05 with the stock ink is dry on both sides in nine seconds.
Can it be rebound when it is full?
Yes, and people do. Send it with the batch number from page 192 and we re-case it in new cloth for CHF 34.00, usually inside three weeks.
Is the signal red cover the same as the rule colour here?
It is matched to it, yes — the same signal red we print the catalogue numbers in. On cloth it reads a half-step darker because the weave takes the light differently.
